Bobbi Kristina Brown and Whitney Houston: Linked in death as in life

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Photos:Bobbi Kristina Brown: Growing up in the spotlight

Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her Georgia home on January 31, 2015. She died at an Atlanta-area hospice on July 26, 2015 at the age of 22.

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Bobby Brown, Houston and a 3-month-old Bobbi Kristina arrive at New York's Kennedy Airport in 1993.

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In this undated photo, probably from 1993, Houston and her husband pose with their infant daughter.

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Bobbi Kristina was photographed with her famous parents often in the early years of their marriage. Here she is with them in the mid-'90s.

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Bobbi Kristina, 3, accompanies her mother to the premiere of "The Preacher's Wife" in 1996.

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Bobbi Kristina, 6, appears with her mom on stage at a 1999 concert in New York.

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Another photo of Bobbi Kristina with her parents, who separated in 2006 and divorced the next year.

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Bobbi Kristina, 16, joins her mother for a 2009 appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America." The free performance was taped in New York's Central Park.

Pat Houston and Bobbi Kristina were among the family members appearing in "The Houstons: On Our Own," a reality show that aired on Lifetime in 2012.

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Bobbi Kristina and her grandmother Cissy Houston attend a premiere party for the show in October 2012.

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Bobbi Kristina posted this photo to Instagram about 2 a.m. ET on Saturday, January 31. Hours later, she was found facedown in her bathtub, alive but unresponsive.

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Bobbi Kristina Brown died Sunday at the age of 22

She was found in similar circumstances to her mother

(CNN)When superstar singer Whitney Houston died on the eve of the Grammys in 2012, fans expressed concern over the welfare of her then-18-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown.

The public had watched her grow up, the beloved only child of Houston and her ex-husband, singer Bobby Brown. Wherever Houston was, her daughter also seemed to be, from walking the red carpet to singing together on "Good Morning America."

When Houston was found dead in the bathtub at the upscale Beverly Hills Hotel hours before she was to attend a pre-awards bash hosted by her mentor, Clive Davis, it hit her daughter hard.

"As to be expected, she's overwhelmed; it's her mother," gospel singer and family friend Kim Burrell said at the time. "She knows how much her mother meant to the world. And Bobbi Kristina has a huge heart, just like her mother."

Houston's troubles with substance abuse were well-documented, and an autopsy found that the "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use" were contributing factors in her drowning death.

Bobbi Kristina's appearance on the family's 2012-13 reality show "The Houstons: On Our Own" also raised red flags, as she sometimes appeared to be slurring her words.

In one episode, her aunt Pat Houston worried that Bobbi Kristina might have been drinking and noted that Houston would occasionally allow her teen daughter to have a glass of wine or champagne.

"But I do not want her dealing with her mother's passing in the wrong way," Pat Houston said.

In July 2014, a picture on her Instagram account showed a young woman who looked like Brown appearing to be smoking from a bong. Brown claimed at the time that someone was trying to destroy her reputation.

Brown was found unresponsive in her Roswell, Georgia, home almost three years to the day after Houston's death, in an eerily similar scene. Bobbi Kristina's death almost six months later is haunting fans and adding poignancy to something she said as she grieved for her mother.